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By Daily Review
Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to QPAC from August 25 to September 2 with its latest work Bennelong, a poignant tribute to one of the most mythologised and celebrated individuals from the days of First Contact. Created by acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Page, Bennelong is his first full-length work to show in Brisbane
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By Daily Review
Australia’s leading Indigenous dance company Bangarra will be moving to Barangaroo’s International Towers in the Sydney CBD in 2018. The company is required to vacate its premises on Pier 4/5 during the significant construction period set aside to redevelop the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. The dance theatre company has been based at Walsh Bay since 1997, but
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By Ben Neutze
Last night’s Helpmann Awards were thoroughly endured by all in attendance. The ceremony, which recognises live performance in almost every form (from ballet, to contemporary music, to stand-up comedy, to opera, to musical theatre), is typically a marathon event. Thankfully, the ceremony ran pretty much to time (three hours, straight through), and there were some
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By Daily Review
Barrie Kosky’s production of Saul, which had its Australian premiere at Adelaide Festival, has dominated this year’s Helpmann Awards, picking up six awards, including Best Direction of an Opera and Best Opera. The winners of the awards were revealed tonight at a ceremony at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre. Leah Purcell’s much-awarded stage adaptation of The Drover’s Wife was a
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Under the sails of the Sydney Opera House, on the same harbour point where Governor Phillip once built him a brick hut, Bangarra now stages this remarkable dance theatre tale about Bennelong. Snatched away to be the colony’s ambassador to his people, Bennelong was reportedly the first Aboriginal man to learn and write English, take
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Romantic rose ceremonies are now part of pop-culture thanks to reality TV’s The Bachelor. But The Sleeping Beauty ballet is where you’ll find the original real-deal in single-stem suspense. At her 16th birthday celebration, Princess Aurora balances on one leg, on pointe, in a tricky-to-hold ‘attitude’ position, while greeting a line-up of handsome Princes –
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By Ben Neutze
Like many people who work with Australia’s live performance industry, I have conflicting feelings about the Helpmann Awards. On one hand, I think it’s important to celebrate the significant achievements of a vibrant industry, and I appreciate that the Helpmann committee and Live Performance Australia try pretty hard to make a national performing arts award consistent and representative.
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By Raymond Gill
When Stephen Found, the owner of the 2010 seat Sydney Lyric Theatre, is in New York checking out shows, he has to be careful to not accidentally roll onto his phone when he’s asleep. If he does, he might set off the app he designed that within a few seconds turns the vast Lyric from 2010 seats to a 1350 seat venue mid-performance
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‘Lord of the Flies’ written by ex-army man William Golding, is the renowned story of a group of schoolboys stranded on an island in the Pacific- and the savagery that ensues. What may seem at first a trivial tale of freedom, a child’s paradise where the restraints of the adult world are removed, descends into
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By Ben Neutze
As a gay teenager growing up in Perth, filmmaker and performer Daniel Monks used to stay up late at night and watch short YouTube films about sexuality. “I would delete the browser history so my parents wouldn’t find out, but those films let me feel less alone in my struggle — that other people go
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